Word: beste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toleration, if not enthusiasm, for the free-trade gospel--mostly, indeed, as a gospel of our civic religion rather than out of anyone's buying the math. Alarm about imports tends to ebb and flow with the economy--less in good times, more in bad. So how, in the best times ever, did the World Trade Organization become the global bogeyman? No earnest college kid ever hitched across the country to carry a picket sign against the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the WTO's predecessor, although its function was similar. It took decades for the CIA, the Trilateral...
...Pasadena, Calif. Then, for four months, the film will be shown only on the gigantic screens in 75 IMAX theaters. (Our advice to moviegoers: sit in the back!) And to camouflage a high-art stigma, F2K employs genial onscreen hosts: Bette Midler, Quincy Jones, Penn & Teller and, best of all, Steve Martin in his suave-idiot mode, to introduce Itzhak Perlman, "who, I have just been informed, plays the violin...
...herself into shape. "I told her if I couldn't sit in a room and listen and be proud of her, I'm out. I said I don't want to see you fail." Now, claims Ebb--who wrote and directed Minnelli on Minnelli--she's in "the best shape literally I have ever seen...
...shot at perfection. Flowing through our gene pool is a high incidence of perfect pitch. That's the rare ability, found in 1 person in 10,000, to sing a given note at exactly the right pitch every time. In a musical family like mine, the person with the best pitch is the quarterback, the beauty queen and the genius rolled into one. We sing a lot in my family, and those members with perfect pitch always get to carry the tune...
...January effect, January barometer and, finally, Super Bowl indicator--all of which are supposed to say something about where stocks are headed. As you might guess, much of the Yuletide lore is pure eggnog. But there's no denying that this season can be magical. The stock market's best months, hands down, are November through January...